Word: ripley
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...Panicky) Spirit of '76 In her article on swine flu, Amanda Ripley ignores the U.S. government's ambitious campaign to vaccinate the country against swine flu during the 1976 scare [Oct. 5]. This debacle resulted in decades of study on the wisdom of mass-vaccination campaigns and the ultimatum from swine-flu-vaccine makers - agreed to by the U.S. government in June - that they must be granted immunity from lawsuits. The 1976 campaign saw expensive lawsuits against the government from the families of the 25 people who died and the 500 or so who were partly paralyzed by Guillain-Barr...
...Ripley, a TIME contributor, is the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes...
...Great Depression but in some ways worsened it. TIME contributor Peter Beinart, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, looks at how Roosevelt understood that he could not lead Americans into war until they understood that their vital interests were at stake, while fellow TIME contributor Amanda Ripley shows how Eleanor Roosevelt's agenda differed from her husband...
Believe it: Ripley's is running out of oddities. Meanwhile, "WOLF BOY" to star in dating reality show...
...Documentaries for families always have to do an awkward two-step between being entertaining and informative. Under the Sea 3-D splashes down clearly on the entertaining side, and environmentalists might take exception to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! approach it takes to its subject. There's a dutiful hat-tip to the threat coral reefs face from global warming, without any substantive advice on what a concerned moviegoer could do about it. Nevertheless, it's quite a parental high to see wonder on the face of a child. Even behind the weirdo glasses...